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| Let It Be |  | Artist: The Replacements
Label: Rhino / Rykodisc
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 9323
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 438844
UPC: 081227993658
EAN: 0081227993658
ASIN: B0014IH1OK
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Still factory-sealed, case has lots of cracks/damage; CD guaranteed
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| Tracks:
| • | I Will Dare | | • | Favorite Thing | | • | We're Comin' Out | | • | Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out | | • | Androgynous | | • | Black Diamond | | • | Unsatisfied | | • | Seen Your Video | | • | Gary's Got a Boner | | • | Sixteen Blue | | • | Answering Machine | | • | 20th Century Boy | | • | Perfectly Lethal (Outtake) | | • | Tempatation Eyes (Outtake) | | • | Answering Machine Listen Listen | | • | Heartbeat-It's a Lovebeat (Outtake Rough Mix) | | • | Sixteen Blue (Outtake Alternate Vocal ) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Better than average 80's college radio rock June 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
At least the whole record doesn't sound like REM. I've just listened to this record for the first time in many years and I'm glad I didn't buy it (borrowed a friends copy). A lot of this music does not hold up for me at all. Songs like "Androgynous" and "Unsatisfied" were never my favorites but I find them completely unlistenable now. Westerberg seems to be trying WAAAYY to hard to be Springsteen or Petty. Those guys are bad enough (especially in the 80's), who would ever want to imitate them?
Back in 1984/85, you would put on a Replacments record to try and please everyone. The girls would talk about how "amaaazing" Paul is, the lame guys from the college radio station would talk about the "quality of the songs" and it would sort of rock enough to please the hardcore crew. Ultimately, I don't think anyone really liked these guys enough to get too excited one way or the other.
Anyways, if you're on this page chances are you have your own opinion and it's totally different than mine. If you've never heard this record, check it out. I prefer Sorry Ma and Stink and don't like anything after this one (you need a college degree to be cool enough to like them). But don't say I didn't warn you if you think it doesn't live up to the hype!
Check out Mighty High...In Drug City. You'll probably hate it, too!
 The material demands a better reissue. Period. June 3, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I've been a fan of this band for a long time, so I was understandably looking forward to proper reissues/remasters for at least ten years. Let It Be may be their best sounding disk and most representative of the band's sound. However, aside from unearthed photos - which are poorly placed inside (with text on the photos?!?) - and better sound than earlier issues on compact disc this reissue simply isn't up to snuff.
And Rhino/Ryko are not to blame either. The band has acquired a certain legacy over time and simply deserves much better. First off the bonus track selection is very half-baked. Fans of the band are familiar with their outtakes by now. Let It Be's include "Who's Gonna Take Us Alive" (the best outtake of the bunch stupidly absent), the lyrically alternate version of "Gary's Got A Boner", "Street Girl" (a fine little ditty), the rocking "You Look Like An Adult" (the original version of "Seen Your Video") and a big whoops was the (new) mix of the alternate version of "Sixteen Blue". The same version (did) include Chan Polling of The Suburbs' grand piano through the entire song. A truly beautiful version, and they botched it! Why they included the same version WITHOUT the best part - or at very least a new interesting feature - of the song is simply poor on all counts.
Gina Arnold (author of the pretty decent 'Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana') wrote the liner notes. While sure, it may be sweet and cute for her to recount what it was like to be a Replacements fan twenty years ago (if that's the case for a filling up liner notes why don't a segment of us Replacements fans start sending in our of sweet stories for Tim now?) it doesn't make for definitive liner-notes writing. We still know as much about the album and there's nothing legitimate about why is it's included here in the first place. It has it's place - but not in the liner notes to one of the best albums the 1980's.
Why there was no input from any band member is certainly unfortunate and perhaps even telling. No first hand stories, memories, information of any kind from the band (aside from their ex-manager informing us that the bonus tracks...were outtakes...from the Let It Be sessions). Considering that these reissues have been in the works - or more accurately been touted as "to be released next year" for the past ten years or so - by the time they actually arrive and they don't have the bonus tracks that the fans would hope they'd include or simply expect, it's hard not to wonder what DID in fact take so long? Surely it wasn't the attention to detail. Having said ALL this, it should please a percentage of fans. I'm going to assume that casual fans (do the 'Mats even have casual fans?) of the band should be fine with this reissue.
It's issues (or reissues as it were) like this that prompt illegal trade of this great bands' music and that's not fair to the band or it's fans.
Oh yeah, and the classic iconic cover is now a few shades darker and cropped to boot!
 Agree with Bill Wikstrom's review and... June 2, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"I Will Dare", "Unsatisfied" and "Answering Machine" have ALL BEEN EDITED!!!
Small, but significant edits have been made to the tracks. Which changes the identity of the track(s) and the album. "Answering Machine" the beginning has been chopped off. No more Paul count off over buzzing guitar. No more back round fumbling before the start of "I Will Dare", in turn the track sounds more confident (for a lack of a better word). The backround after "Androgynous" are not only edited but also now bleed over onto the front (beginning) of "Black Diamond". Which sounds like a careless post-production boo-boo. But being intimately familiar with this album, it now sounds like it's someone else's album.
For something so well-established, it just seems pretty foolish for a revisionist history lesson as far as ANY editing of the original album tracks.
Glaring omissions aside ("Who's Gonna Take Us Alive", "Street Girl", "Sixteen Blue" - without Chan Polling's piano on the entire track (!!) which also had a very nice guitar feedback ending courtesy of Bob - now gone (as if it was never even there). And simply uninteresting, very uninforming and self-indulgent liner notes. The purchase is fine for the photos (with staples in the middle of frames) and beefier sound. Otherwise, it's just a bad re-issue which is unfortunate as it's been in the works (the idea of a reissue at very least) for a while now.
Will there be a box set forthcoming for all of the ommisions?
 Replace Your "Replacements" May 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
No band from the glory days of punk/alt rock expressed their angst through music better than The Replacements. Well, maybe the Sex Pistols, but really, who could listen to that sober? The Replacements were on the other hand gifted with the incredible talents of both Tommy Stinson and Paul Westerberg - who were probably as close to Lennon and McCartney in raw talent as rock has seen since the Beatles started suing each other.
"Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash", "Stink", "Hootenanny" and "Let It Be" have all been remastered and reissued through Rhino Records with bonus material included. Most critics have proclaimed "Let It Be" their masterpiece - but I'm still holding out for "Don't Tell A Soul" as their best work. Regardless, no CD deserves a return listen - or first time buy - more than "Let It Be." From the opening notes of "I Will Dare" you will know that you're in for a musical ride unlike the best efforts of many a band since.
Speaking of which, I'm still a bit peeved at an editorial from "Paste" magazine a couple of months ago that basically blasted us older listeners for complaining about the lack of quality new music. I meant to send a letter to the editor, but I think that was the week my car exploded, my dog died, and my girlfriend fell in love with a folk singer - I forget. But my point was, while I appreciate folks wanting music from "their" era to be more special, and more meaningful than that of generations proceeding them - I triple dare you to play one of today's top tier artists - say Death Cab For Cutie - whom I find immensely enjoyable to listen to, but at the same time instantly forgettable - in say, 30 years, and find anything of real value in it. Compare that to Led Zeppelin II or Abbey Road - both which came out over 40 years ago - and both still make anything being released today sound like garage band music. Sorry, but the truth does hurt sometimes!
Underground classic. May 17, 2008
So yeah, this is an album eveyone should own. If you don't have it already, then get this reissue. The bonus tracks are interesting from an historical standpoint and the liner notes are light but informative. I pretty much agree with everyone else that if you already own the previous remastered version, then you don't really need to run out and buy this just for the bonus tracks. This is a good initiation for new fans.
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